Sam Hunt Quotes
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There's not a day goes by that I don't appreciate the freedom that I have to make music and tour and spend time with my family.
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We try not to pull any punches and be straightforward, and I think that's what helped us connect with everybody across the board.
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There's this sort of model that exists in Nashville that we think we have to abide by: You put out a record, and in two years you have to put out another one and have three or four singles. There are all these rules that I've just sort of thrown out the window.
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Some people don't like long bus rides, but I love them. There's sort of a sense of solitude.
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My dad is a football guy, not a music guy. He didn't totally understand when I decided to be a musician.
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I grew up really close to Alabama, about 10 minutes from the Alabama line. We'd make trips to Alabama, and I feel at home there.
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I've always wanted to do my best to make sure it's clear that I want to keep the focus on my music.
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I try to stay as naive as possible so I'm not as aware as much of the risks.
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I love so many styles of music.
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From the pop side, people like Usher, and when they first came out, I listened to guys like K-Ci and JoJo; that '90s R&B thing really caught my ear.
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A lot of times, songs can blend together on the radio because there's so many great songs out there.
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I've tried to work really hard on never phoning in the lyrics.
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I worked at a hospital parking cars and getting folks in and out of the hospital as they would come in for their appointments.
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I realized after writing songs for years how important it is. Whether it provides a living for me or not, that creative outlet is something I need.
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I have two or three guys that I'm really close to. We have a great friendship, and I think that helps our songwriting relationship. It's hard to start... with new people and cover the ground that I've covered with those guys.
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It's liberating to wear clothes that are outside the boundaries of what I'm supposed to wear, ya know, based on the traditional model, whether that be a country music singer, or being from the country. It's not a rebellious thing.
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It's just really fulfilling to celebrate with a group of folks, a team, than it is personally.
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I like to come up with lots of different sounds. So the final version of a song might have been 10 completely different songs before we finally got it right.
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'Make You Miss Me' is an important song to me. Having it go No. 1 as the fifth single off of my first record is the cherry on top of a chapter in my life I'll never forget.
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Traditionally, music has been a means of separating ourselves as people from another group of people.
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The money factor had been kind of my excuse as to why I hadn't put out any music. So I just found the cheapest way to make music and get it to people, and that was via the Internet.
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I try to make music that's relevant to my life and relatable to the culture I live in.
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I'm going to put music out when I feel like it's ready.
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I don't like the idea that in music, clothes, taste or anything, we are limited to a certain style, because we need to maintain an identity, maybe between some subculture group. Hopefully, all those walls break down, and music is just music.